The Racial Economy of Science' encompassed a range of crucial issues, including a critical revaluation of the sciences in pre-modern high cultures of China, Africa, and the Andes, how science legitimated culturally approved definitions of race difference, the dependence of Third World research of First World agendas, race, imperialism, and the application of scientific technologies in health and reproduction, developmental agriculture and applied biology in the Third World, environmental racism and environmental crises in developing countries, and visions of programs that create sciences for a democratic world community.